Alan made bread for the feast.
Alan made bread for the feast.
Wendy, Steve, and Vanessa come over for Thanksgiving dinner.
I'd made pumpkin and cherry pies and brought them along.
On Friday Mother took us over to Asbury's pool.
What a nice facility! And the water was warm.
She treated us to lunch in the Kindley Building cafeteria.
Mother is now strong enough to manage her attic stairs.
Sorting out the Christmas stuff. Mother wanted it all down and then to be stored in the
garage after Christmas instead of going back up to the attic.
Wendy and Steve picked Glen up at BWI Saturday morning and then came straight from there
to the villa.
Alan relaxes with the Wii.
They're busy 'paddling' their kayaks on the Wii.
Exploring the chest of Christmas tree decorations.
The old Santa Claus was traditionally the first ornament to go on the tree from Mother's childhood.
Christmas dinner. Nice way to kick off the season.
Roger and Alan do 'rock, paper, scissors' to see who should start the gift opening.
Candy and money for Legos -- he's happy!
After taking a good look at Mother's existing shelves in the garage, and knowing she wanted to
store her Christmas decorations there later, we decided to get her a sturdy set of shelves from Costco.
Glen and Steve had the shelves assembled in well under an hour.
Time to head home. At least saying good-bye wasn't as difficult since Mother planned to
fly to Cleveland on Christmas Day.